Duckwater Shoshone Tribe
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The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized Western Shoshone Native American tribe based in central Nevada, known for maintaining traditional Shoshoni culture and language while governing its own reservation lands.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duckwater Shoshone Tribe canonical | 3 |
| Ely Shoshone Tribe | 1 |
| Yomba Shoshone Tribe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4183718 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duckwater Shoshone Tribe Context triple: [Shoshoni, usedBy, Duckwater Shoshone Tribe]
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A.
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are a federally recognized Native American tribal nation in the United States, primarily based at the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho and composed of Shoshone and Bannock peoples.
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B.
Shivwits Band of Paiutes
The Shivwits Band of Paiutes is a federally recognized Native American tribe in southwestern Utah, representing one of the bands of the Southern Paiute people with its own government and reservation lands.
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C.
Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes
The Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Southern Paiute people traditionally associated with the Great Basin region of the southwestern United States.
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D.
Moapa Band of Paiute Indians
The Moapa Band of Paiute Indians is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Southern Paiute people based in southern Nevada.
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E.
Cedar Band of Paiutes
The Cedar Band of Paiutes is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Southern Paiute people based in southwestern Utah.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duckwater Shoshone Tribe Target entity description: The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized Western Shoshone Native American tribe based in central Nevada, known for maintaining traditional Shoshoni culture and language while governing its own reservation lands.
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A.
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are a federally recognized Native American tribal nation in the United States, primarily based at the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho and composed of Shoshone and Bannock peoples.
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B.
Shivwits Band of Paiutes
The Shivwits Band of Paiutes is a federally recognized Native American tribe in southwestern Utah, representing one of the bands of the Southern Paiute people with its own government and reservation lands.
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C.
Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes
The Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Southern Paiute people traditionally associated with the Great Basin region of the southwestern United States.
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D.
Moapa Band of Paiute Indians
The Moapa Band of Paiute Indians is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Southern Paiute people based in southern Nevada.
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E.
Cedar Band of Paiutes
The Cedar Band of Paiutes is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Southern Paiute people based in southwestern Utah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American tribe
ⓘ
Western Shoshone tribe ⓘ federally recognized tribe ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicGroup | Shoshone people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticGroup | Numic-speaking peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | tribal government ⓘ |
| governs | Duckwater Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRight |
self-governance
ⓘ
tribal sovereignty ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | Indian reservation ⓘ |
| language | Shoshoni language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eureka County, Nevada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nevada ⓘ central Nevada ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Duckwater, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintains |
Shoshoni language
ⓘ
traditional Shoshoni culture ⓘ |
| partOf | Western Shoshone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| people | Western Shoshone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | sovereign domestic dependent nation ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| region | Great Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory | Western Shoshone homelands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Duckwater Shoshone Tribe Description of subject: The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized Western Shoshone Native American tribe based in central Nevada, known for maintaining traditional Shoshoni culture and language while governing its own reservation lands.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ely Shoshone Tribe
this entity surface form:
Yomba Shoshone Tribe